Wednesday, September 7, 2016

On Monday, September 5th The Va Flaggers and the Army of Northern Virginia Mechanized Cavalry were invited to join the Powhatan Troop Camp #1382 SCV for the 5th annual Powhatan Lions Club Labor Day parade.

We were expecting a small crowd and brought about 7 dozen stick flags. We were out of flags within the first 5 minutes. Support was overwhelming and we were greeted with applause and thanks the entire route, which was lined by thousands.

Special thanks to the men of the Powhatan Troop, Camp #1382, SCV for the invitation and warm welcome.

The Uncle Remus Museum strives to educate visitors about the life and work of Joel Chandler Harris using historic storytelling, period artifacts, dioramas of the more famous Uncle Remus character, local history during Harris' formative years, and informative tours.

I've written for years about the dangers of an economic downturn. Many
people regard such talk as 'crying wolf' - seeing non-existent dangers
behind every bush. Nevertheless, I've always been able to give reasons
for my concerns, and some of you have researched them for yourselves and
come to similar conclusions. I've emphasized that I don't necessarily
see it as a sudden, all-in collapse (although that's possible), but more
likely a long, dark economic twilight. Some of the articles I've
written include (but are not limited to):

Ninety-nine years ago, Tsar Nicholas II
abdicated, and, after a few months of weak parliamentary rule, the
Bolsheviks seized power. We call that seizure the Russian (or October)
Revolution, but it might better be designated the Bolshevik coup d’état.
A party of 10,000 people gained control of an empire occupying
one-sixth of the earth’s land area.

From the start, they made up for their small
numbers with outsized violence. If at first their executions of
liberals, socialists, workers who showed independence, and peasants from
whom grain was seized at gunpoint seemed like a short-term necessity,
it soon became evident that the violence would never stop. In fact, it
was to grow, with Stalin proclaiming “the intensification of the class
struggle” when Bolshevik control had long been total.

Fourteen years ago my life changed forever as I arrived in the United States, holding tightly to hope and a promise.

That promise was freedom and a dream of a better life.

I
entered this beautiful country as a documented immigrant at the age of
18 in August 2002, almost one year after 9/11. After surviving 15 years
of oppression under Sharia in Iran, I felt older than my years. I had
seen too much and I knew all too well the suffering of those who were
subjected to Islam. What I had witnessed and experienced had left my
soul weary. But in America, I felt safe. I was able to breathe, and I
could stop looking over my shoulder and living in fear.

I
could now believe in miracles. Here I was, the newest member of the
greatest country in the world. It was my rebirth into freedom. I was in a
new place that viewed me as a human; someone of value to society.
Finally, my life mattered. I was a daughter of liberty; a citizen of the
U.S.A.

I’ve
never forgotten those who I left behind -- and I have dedicated my life
to them. How could I turn my back on them, when I know all too well the
vicious suffering women endure in Islamic-ruled countries?

New docs reveal that even allies wonder if activist AG went too far

With his latest plan to punish even thoughts and speech related to
climate change, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has raised
the eyebrows of even his fellow climate-change activist Democrat
attorneys general (AG).

Officials from a number of state AG offices expressed anxiety about
Schneiderman’s controversial plan to investigate and possibly prosecute
not only energy companies, but think tanks, for challenging the science
underpinning some of the more alarmist statements coming from the Al
Gore camp of the party on climate issues. Newly-released emails, obtained under freedom of information laws, reveal a level of discomfort with Schneiderman’s strategy.

You may die anyway. You—or the leader of
your party—may make it into the cockpit and not know how to fly or land
the plane. There are no guarantees.

Except one: if you don’t try, death is certain. To compound the
metaphor: a Hillary Clinton presidency is Russian Roulette with a
semi-auto. With Trump, at least you can spin the cylinder and take your
chances.

To ordinary conservative ears, this sounds histrionic. The stakes
can’t be that high because they are never that high—except perhaps in
the pages of Gibbon. Conservative intellectuals will insist that there
has been no “end of history” and that all human outcomes are still
possible. They will even—as Charles Kesler does—admit that America is in
“crisis.” But how great is the crisis? Can things really be so bad if
eight years of Obama can be followed by eight more of Hillary, and yet
Constitutionalist conservatives can still reasonably hope for a
restoration of our cherished ideals? Cruz in 2024!

Not to pick (too much) on Kesler, who is less unwarrantedly
optimistic than most conservatives. And who, at least, poses the right
question: Trump or Hillary? Though his answer—“even if [Trump] had
chosen his policies at random, they would be sounder than Hillary’s”—is
unwarrantedly ungenerous.

The truth is that Trump articulated, if
incompletely and inconsistently, the right stances on the right
issues—immigration, trade, and war—right from the beginning.

Inquiry points to
that an assassination attempt was made on President Vladimir Putin.
What inquiry points to is those who were behind this, thought that Mr.
Putin had returned home from the G20 and this was a direct attack on Mr.
Putin's life.

Mr. Putin's vehicle was traveling one direction and another vehicle
crossed over from the other direction and smashed head on into the
President's vehicle.

The leader of the Ferguson protests was found dead with a gunshot wound inside a burning car early Tuesday.

Authorities found the remains of Darren Seals, 29, after they extinguished the fire in the car, reports CBS News.

“We were asleep and we heard this big, big boom … The next thing we
knew, it was on fire. Like, flaming,” a woman who lived across the
street told KMOV.

Officers responded to a call around 2 a.m Tuesday about a vehicle
fire in Riverview, according to a statement from the police. After
authorities put out the fire, they found Seals’ body with a gunshot
wound.

Vladimir Putin has banned Jacob Rothschild and his New World Order
banking cartel family from entering Russian territory “under any
circumstances. Putin recently reminded his cabinet that he paid off the
Rothschild’s debt and “grabbed them by the scruff of the neck and kicked
them out Russia’s back door.”

This meeting featured the President
pounding his fist on the table and vowing to destroy the New World
Order, and according to a Kremlin source Putin is making great strides
towards this goal.

“They do not own the world, and they do not have carte blanch to do whatever they want. If we do not challenge them there will be other issues. We will not be bullied by them.”

Remembrance

To die for one’s country is not only an act of bravery, it is THE act of bravery. For soldiers, it is just an extension of their military career, a part of their duty. As leaders have asked their soldiers to sacrifice themselves for the good of the society, it is only right for leaders to go through the same motion. They should practice what they have preached.

As war is seen as a noble act, tu sat serves as redemption in case of defeat. It is also a way to tell the enemy: “You might have won the battle/war but you don’t deserve to win because you don’t have the chinh nghia (just cause).” And it is not only just cause: it is the moral belief that the cause they are fighting for deserves their total sacrifice. Continues below

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Core Creek Militia

==============================My sixth great grandfather, his wife, and five of his six children were killed in battle with the Tuscarora Indians at Core Creek, NC.

The Seven Blackbirds

==============================My third great grandfather was an Ensign in the Revolutionary War, and saved his unit's flag after being wounded at the Battle of Brandywine. He was also at Kingston (Kinston), Wilmington, Charleston, Two Sisters and Augusta. He was at the defeat at Brier Creek and also Bee Creek.

Requiem Aeternam -
Eternal Rest Grant unto Them
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My second great grandfather was killed in action on May 3, 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
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My great grandfather and great uncle knew all the men in the "Civil War Requiem" video as they were part of the 53rd NC which was the sole unit defending Fort Mahone. (Fort Mahone was named "Fort Damnation" by the Yankees) *Handpicked men of the 53rd (My great grandfather was one of these) made the final, night assault at Petersburg in an attempt to break Grant's line. This was against Fort Stedman which was a few miles to the slight northeast. They initially succeeded, but reinforcements drove them back. This video is made from photographs which were taken the day after the 53rd evacuated the lines the night before to begin the retreat to Appomattox. I have many more pictures taken by the same photographer, one of these shows a 14 year old boy and the other is the famous picture of the blond, handsome soldier with his musket.
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*General Gordon promised the men a gold medal and 30 days leave if they accomplished their task and many years after the War my great grandfather wrote General Gordon, who was then governor of Georgia about this incident. They exchanged several letters which I have framed. See first link below.
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*The Attack On Fort Stedman
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"His Colored Friends"
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Lee's Surrender
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My Black NC Kinfolks
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Punished For Being Caught!

Great Grandfather Koonce

He was a drummer boy in the WBTS, survived the War only to die a few years later. He was caught in an ice storm on his way home, but instead of seeking shelter, continued on his horse until the end. His clothes had to be cut off and he died a few days later.